The Criminal Investigation Department.
Hard-drinking thugs who love to nab crooks - unless the crooks are passing them backhanders.
That's the vision of Life on Mars, the hit BBC1 show.
But what's the truth about CID from the days of Warrington Borough Police, before it disappeared with the amalgamation into Lancashire in 1969?
In part two of our look back at the force, this Thursday's Warrington Guardian looks back at CID, before the days of DNA and psychological profiling.
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